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Colorado Counties

Colorado currently has sixty-four counties. The Counties of Colorado are important components of government since the state has no secondary civil subdivisions such as townships. Two counties, the City and County of Denver and the City and County of Broomfield, have consolidated city and county governments.. No organized Counties of the District of Louisiana, the Territory of Missouri, or the Territory of Nebraska existed within the present boundaries of the State of Colorado.

Weld County, Colorado

Weld County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Greeley
Year Organized: 1861
Square Miles: 3,993

Court House:

950 O Street
Centennial Center
Greeley, CO 80632-0758

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Weld County is named in honor of Lewis Ledyard Weld, the first Secretary of the Territory of Colorado.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act created the Nebraska Territory and the Kansas Territory, divided by the Parallel 40° North (Baseline Road or County Line Road or Weld County Road 2 in the future Weld County). Present-day Weld County, Colorado, lay in the southwestern portion of the Nebraska Territory, bordering the Kansas Territory.

Geography

Weld County lies within the relatively flat eastern half of Colorado; the northeastern portions of the county contain the extensive Pawnee National Grassland and the Pawnee Buttes, which jut 250 feet above the surrounding terrain. Along the western border some low hills betray the presence of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains further west.

Neighboring Counties:

Northeast: Kimball County, Neb.
East: Logan County
Southeast: Morgan County
South: Adams County
Southwest: Boulder County
West: Larimer County
Northwest: Laramie County, Wyo.

Cities and Towns:

- Ault	town	Incorporated Area
- Brighton	city	Incorporated Area
- Dacono	city	Incorporated Area
- Eaton	town	Incorporated Area
- Erie	town	Incorporated Area
- Evans	city	Incorporated Area
- Firestone	town	Incorporated Area
- Fort Lupton	city	Incorporated Area
- Fort Morgan	city	Incorporated Area
- Frederick	town	Incorporated Area
- Garden City	town	Incorporated Area
- Gilcrest	town	Incorporated Area
- Greeley (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Grover	town	Incorporated Area
- Hudson	town	Incorporated Area
- Johnstown	town	Incorporated Area
- Keenesburg	town	Incorporated Area
- Kersey	town	Incorporated Area
- La Salle	town	Incorporated Area
- Longmont	city	Incorporated Area
- Mead	town	Incorporated Area
- Milliken	town	Incorporated Area
- Nunn	town	Incorporated Area
- Pierce	town	Incorporated Area
- Platteville	town	Incorporated Area
- Raymer	town	Incorporated Area
- Severance	town	Incorporated Area
- Windsor	town	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resources

The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."